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NewsWilkinson Eyre & KSS to design basketball arena
Wilkinson Eyre and KSS Design Group have seen off competition from firms including Grimshaw and David Morley Architects to design the temporary basketball arena for the 2012 Olympics.
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NewsYoung guns miss out on Athletes Village first phase
Established names scoop lion’s share as Lend Lease boss promises ‘time to be playful later’
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Theatre designer celebrated
Theatre designer Frank Matcham (1854–1920) was commemorated yesterday, (Thursday) with an English Heritage blue plaque outside the home he lived in for nine years in Crouch End, London.
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NewsBD editor scoops top honour
BD editor Amanda Baillieu (pictured centre, alongside Grazia editor Jane Bruton and comedian Alan Carr) has been named weekly business magazine editor of the year at the prestigious British Society of Magazine Editors awards.
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AEW takes over museum design
National Museums Liverpool has vowed to push on with designs for the new Museum of Liverpool despite ending its relationship with architect 3XN.
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NewsBodleian Library scheme nixed
Scott Brownrigg’s proposed £29 million book depository (pictured) for the University of Oxford was thrown out the city’s council on Monday night.
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Milton Court down, Make goes up
City of London planners this week assented to the demolition of Milton Court, the oldest part of the Barbican complex.
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Government offers green advice to householders
The government is to launch an advice service to help householders work their way through the minefield of home energy-efficiency improvements.
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NewsGerman firm wins Stockholm contest
German architect Heike Hanada has beaten thousands of competitors to design a £60 million extension to Gunnar Asplund’s iconic public library in Stockholm.
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NewsHampshire pavilions
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has received planning permission for this £9 million office development in Southampton.
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Sonnemann Toon nets two awards
London-based Sonnemann Toon Architects has won accolades for two of its health buildings.
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Kent praises quality hopefuls
More than 30 Kent architects and design firms are in the running for this year’s Kent Design Awards, which will take place at Canterbury Cathedral next Thursday.
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News‘Ambitious’ apartments completed
Cheshire-based architect Bowker Sadler has completed two five-storey apartment blocks as part of a £75 million mixed-tenure development in Beswick, Manchester.
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NewsIn the groove at Assael scheme
Assael Architects and artist Oliver Marsden have created this public art for the facade of a new residential scheme in Westminster.
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Hammersmith regeneration battle heats up
Wilkinson Eyre is battling Barton Wilmore and Sheppard Robson in a public competition to design a major regeneration scheme in west London.
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British entries to the Stockholm library contest
Among the entrants to the Stockholm library competition, won this week by Heike Hanada, were British practices Stephen Taylor, Woolf Architects and Florian Beigel
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Richard Rogers' Paris retrospective reviewed
The Pompidou is a fitting host for this major retrospective of Rogers work, says Kester Rattenbury The show is aimed at the public rather than architects but there's plenty here to enjoy, says Amanda Baillieu
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Britain’s biggest practice defends loss last year
BDP’s £20,000 loss a result of investment in staff, boss claims